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by aleqs 4mo ago
> can't company B hire the same workers and compete harder with these new extra productive workers they hired How much of the current tech world is actually about competing based on innovation/quality/merit? I'd wager
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Another point to consider - how efficient/productive/useful is the typical tech company really? How innovative is the typical tech company? From my experience, the majority of them are focused more on marketing and enshitification
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by aleqs 4mo ago
Yeah, people need a creative output, not just for creativity sake but something that feels productive/constructive and beneficial to them and their society/community. Open source is an example of such work, and amazing things have
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Thanks!
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Very cool project! > We've developed a unique (AFAIK) solution to the consistency problem, every contract must define a "merge" operation for the contract's associated state. This operation must be commutative, meanin
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by aleqs 5mo ago
When you upload your content to the internet to be freely viewable/downloadable by anyone - you are giving it away for free. Also realistically small artists/creators (which are the vast majority) are not making any real money fro
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by aleqs 5mo ago
They are free to pay whatever they want to pay, and the devs are free to accept/deny any work/payment they deem required. Let me know if you need me to break it down for you further.
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Do you understand the difference between a user compensating someone directly vs an ad agency or platform doing so? Or do you think users actually think 'i don't want this creator to be compensated so I'll use an ad blocker&
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Whoever can and wants to pay is free to pay. Everyone else is free to not pay. Not sure what the problem with that is - seems like a basic human right/freedom unless your brain is consumed by the marketing/advertising virus. In ma
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Users do not compensate websites for serving ads. Your argument just doesn't make any sense. Also - negotiating 'a truce with advertisers'? What does that even mean? Granting the ads industry even more power and control over
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by aleqs 5mo ago
> When you don't want the ads and privacy invasion, you don't visit the website. First of all, I can and will visit any website I want, and I will use an ad blocker while doing so. Second - how do you know what ads and privacy
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Maybe take a moment to consider why people are choosing to use adblockers in the first place. And whether having content being monetized through and relying on ads is even a good thing overall (it's not). Advertising and marketing is f
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by aleqs 5mo ago
What bizarre and absurd line of reasoning. Users who care about their privacy and opt out of downloading ads and malware are 'denying creators revenue'? Are you denying creators revenue by not reading reading/observing every
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by aleqs 5mo ago
> over-arching mission of making the web MORE accessible, not less Right, that's why they pushed AMP and upranked AMP pages in their results. That's also why they decided to severely neuter/remove as blocking extensions fo
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Show HN: Alint, a fast linter for repository structure and hygiene(github.com)
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by aleqs 5mo ago
I think companies will self host (including on rented hardware) even if it's more expensive, and that, along with efficiency improvements, will drop demand for big AI. I think big AI is overspending on hardware/datacenters at the
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Very much agree - efficiency improvements are very real both on model and hardware side. The reliance on proprietary OpenAI/anthropic APIs is a problem though, one that will naturally resolve itself in the favour of self-hosted/op
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Hard agree - the benefits of local/self-hosted models are not just hardware/cost (it might be more expensive at the moment), but what you get in exchange is unnerfed/unstupified models, full cost/usage transparency, opti
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by aleqs 5mo ago
I think hardware prices will come back down once we start seeing more efficiency improvements in models and hardware, and once more people and companies self-host models (which seems to be happening more and more these days). I think the ma
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Ah yes, agreed!
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Absolutely love this!
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by aleqs 5mo ago
While I agree with everything you say, the reality of most tech companies these days (based on my experience), is that they will not even invest time into maintaining their own infrastructure and libraries unless forced to do so - much less
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by aleqs 5mo ago
It happens, but I know it's not enough, and I semi-regularly dream about my projects and AI coding at this point. I do take breaks as well, for food/showers/etc, so not as crazy as it sounds - though I try to line up any brea
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Somewhat off-topic but related - doing a lot of AI-assisted coding lately, multiple projects at the same time. I'm basically in 15 hour loops of reviewing code/output and creating prompts, switching to the next project while Claud
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Thank you!
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by aleqs 5mo ago
yeah similar concept for repo structure/hygiene - I wasn't aware of vale before but cool project!
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by aleqs 5mo ago
I'm working on a general repo shape/structure linter (language agnostic)[0] - the idea is to enforce things like directory structure, existence of various files (LICENCE, etc.), file naming patterns, jsonpath + schema over json&#x
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Indeed, I've been experimenting with agent workflows, for complicated tasks - where I essentially have a graph of agents with different roles/capabilities, including such things as breaking down complex tasks into simpler ones. Th
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by aleqs 5mo ago
Is it expressed as an API though? Does Stripe Projects have a documented public API? Also isn't the payments for this involve manually entering payment/card info (meaning it could theoretically be done a dozen different ways which
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by aleqs 5mo ago
What KYC does Stripe Projects do other than email verification?

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